CST to MSK Converter
Time Difference
Central Daylight Time is 8 hours behind Moscow Standard Time
9:30 am09:30 in CDT is 5:30 pm17:30 in MSK
CST to MSK call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-10am in CST which corresponds to 5pm-7pm in MSK
9:30 am09:30 Central Daylight Time (CDT). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
5:30 pm17:30 Moscow Standard Time (MSK). Offset UTC +3:00 hours
9:30 am09:30 CDT / 5:30 pm17:30 MSK
CDT | MSK |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 8am |
1am | 9am |
2am | 10am |
3am | 11am |
4am | 12pm (noon) |
5am | 1pm |
6am | 2pm |
7am | 3pm |
8am | 4pm |
9am | 5pm |
10am | 6pm |
11am | 7pm |
12pm (noon) | 8pm |
1pm | 9pm |
2pm | 10pm |
3pm | 11pm |
4pm | 12am (midnight) |
5pm | 1am |
6pm | 2am |
7pm | 3am |
8pm | 4am |
9pm | 5am |
10pm | 6am |
11pm | 7am |
0:00 | 8:00 |
1:00 | 9:00 |
2:00 | 10:00 |
3:00 | 11:00 |
4:00 | 12:00 |
5:00 | 13:00 |
6:00 | 14:00 |
7:00 | 15:00 |
8:00 | 16:00 |
9:00 | 17:00 |
10:00 | 18:00 |
11:00 | 19:00 |
12:00 | 20:00 |
13:00 | 21:00 |
14:00 | 22:00 |
15:00 | 23:00 |
16:00 | 0:00 |
17:00 | 1:00 |
18:00 | 2:00 |
19:00 | 3:00 |
20:00 | 4:00 |
21:00 | 5:00 |
22:00 | 6:00 |
23:00 | 7:00 |
Central Standard Time
Offset: CST is 6 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries: It is used in following countries: Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CST timezone is Mexico City from Mexico with population about 12.294 million people. Other major cities in the area are Chicago, Houston, Iztapalapa, Ecatepec
French: HNC - Heure Normale du Centre
Spanish: CT - Tiempo Central Estándar, CT - Zona Centro

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Central Daylight Time (CDT).
End: Central Standard Time (CST) has ended on Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 9, 2025, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually the on second Sunday of March.
Start: Central Standard Time (CST) starts on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually the on first Sunday of November.
CST representations, usage and related time zones
- -06 - basic short
- -0600 - basic
- -06:00 - extended
- -0600 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (06) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates six hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.
- Sierra - Military abbreviation for CST
- S - short form of 'Sierra'
- America/Bahia_Banderas
- America/Belize
- America/Chicago
- America/Chihuahua
- America/Costa_Rica
- America/El_Salvador
- America/Guatemala
- America/Indiana/Knox
- America/Indiana/Tell_City
- America/Knox_IN
- America/Managua
- America/Matamoros
- America/Menominee
- America/Merida
- America/Mexico_City
- America/Monterrey
- America/North_Dakota/Beulah
- America/North_Dakota/Center
- America/North_Dakota/New_Salem
- America/Ojinaga
- America/Rainy_River
- America/Rankin_Inlet
- America/Regina
- America/Resolute
- America/Swift_Current
- America/Tegucigalpa
- America/Winnipeg
- CST6CDT
- Canada/Central
- Canada/Saskatchewan
- Mexico/General
- US/Central
- US/Indiana-Starke
- Central Standard Time - UTC -6
- China Standard Time - UTC +8
- Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5
- Colombia Standard Time - UTC -5
- CST - Central Standard Time
- CT - Central Time
- MDT - Mountain Daylight Time
- EAST - Easter Island Standard Time
- GALT - Galapagos Time
- S - Sierra Time Zone
Moscow Standard Time
Offset: MSK is 3 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe
Countries: It is used in following countries: Russia, Ukraine
Principal Cities: The largest city in the MSK timezone is Moscow from Russia with population about 10.381 million people. Other major cities in the area are Saint Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan, Rostov na Donu
Daylight Saving: Moscow Standard Time (MSK) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore MSK remains the same through out the year. This means, unlike some time zones where the clock is set forward by one hour every summer and backward by one hour during winter to adjust for daylight saving, Moscow Standard Time remains the same

MSK representations, usage and related time zones
- +03 - basic short
- +0300 - basic
- +03:00 - extended
- +0300 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (03) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates three hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Charlie - Military abbreviation for MSK
- C - short form of 'Charlie'
- Europe/Kirov
- Europe/Moscow
- Europe/Simferopol
- Europe/Volgograd
- W-SU
- EEST - Eastern European Summer Time
- MSK - Moscow Standard Time
- AST - Arabia Standard Time
- C - Charlie Time Zone
- EAT - Eastern Africa Time
- FET - Further Eastern European Time
- IDT - Israel Daylight Time
- TRT - Turkey Time